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3 Ways to Find Weight Loss Motivation

March 28, 2017

It can be difficult to maintain motivation when youíre trying to lose weight. Itís easy to start off with enthusiasm and be excited about your goals. However, at a certain point the motivation and enthusiasm can wane. There are essentially three steps to finding your motivation and keeping it as you strive to live a healthier life.

How to Find Weight Loss Motivation

How to Find Weight Loss Motivation

1. What’s Your Reason?

There are many reasons why someone may want to lose weight. For example, you may have had a health scare. You might have an event or a vacation that you want to look great for. You may simply be tired of your clothes feeling too tight, or maybe you realize that youíll have more energy and vitality if you shed a few pounds.

Keep in mind that your reason for losing weight needs to be one that is true. Trying to lose weight because you think you should doesnít usually work. Identifying your reason for wanting to lose weight will help you create a plan that supports you to succeed.

2. What Will Make It Enjoyable?

The second component of finding and maintaining motivation to lose weight is to find activities that you enjoy. Exercise doesnít have to be a chore, and healthy eating doesnít have to be boring. When youíre enjoying the weight-loss process, youíre much more likely to stay excited about it and motivated to continue.

Think about exercise activities that you might enjoy. If you enjoy dancing, for example, then a barre class or a fitness dance class may be perfect. Identify resources for healthy and delicious foods as well. They can help you stay excited about your weight loss.

How to Find Weight Loss Motivation

3. Create a Support System

The third component of finding and maintaining motivation to lose weight is to create a support system. This means that your environment supports you, the people in your life support you, and the tools that you use support you. These tools can be things like health and fitness applications.

There are applications that connect you to online fitness communities and can help you stay engaged and active in your weight loss. There are also applications that help you track calories consumed and burned. You can connect mobile apps to monitoring devices to track your effort and intensity as well. There are even apps that will send you an exercise for the day, healthy recipes or information on great running, walking, and biking routes in your community.

There are fitness and health applications that help you find people to exercise with, applications that help you schedule your fitness classes and so much more. Creating systems that support you will help you stay motivated. Your support systems may be the most important component of maintaining motivation to lose weight.

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About Jenn

Jenn Mitchell is a proud mom, wife and adventure seeker. She’s traveled either solo or with family to 20 countries and 36 U.S. states so far. A former personal trainer, Jenn looks for ways to keep her family fit and active both at home and on the road. Her goal is to inspire other moms and families to live happy and healthy lives.

Comments

  1. Megan Davis says

    March 31, 2017 at 6:12 am

    I am planning to go to the gym since last January. Unfortunatey, I don’t have time yet until now and a bit not motivated anymore. However, when I read this blog, I remember why I want to be fit before. It is to get back my confidence about my body.

  2. Jesse Kent says

    April 6, 2017 at 7:59 am

    It ‘s really great to know.Thank you for sharing.

  3. Paola says

    April 25, 2017 at 9:03 pm

    When one has a support system to help encourage you in your goals, it helps motivate you! Also, having friends who also want to live a healthy lifestyle will help both of you to be accountable for one another. Great article! Thanks for sharing!

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